The central room in this wing looks at the tension between the bodily and the abstract in the art of the 1950s. Living through the physical, moral and humanitarian crises that followed the Second World War, artists were faced with the dilemma of how to make art in the shadow of catastrophe. Wary of false idealisms, some artists engaged more closely with the physical materials of art-making, while others focused on the body as a site for transformation. The surrounding galleries examine ways in which the figure has continued to be the bearer of meaning, protest or renewal in the face of conflict and disaster. There are also several rooms devoted to the elegiac and sublime, with immersive works in which form and colour allow direct emotional engagement
I think that this will influence me in my assignment for 3D as he is very similar to alberto glacometti work that I have already researched.
No comments:
Post a Comment